Friday morning’s tornadoes and heavy winds wreaked havoc on Tallahassee, but line crews got to work almost immediately after the the storm cleared. On Sunday, for example, a power pole plopped out as easily as a toothpick, its dirt-crusted bottom wagging in the air within seconds of the digger derrick truck giving it a tug. […]
Internet users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda have been complaining about poor connectivity as service providers across East Africa acknowledge there has been a problem. They have said they are working to fix it. The patchy service was a result of faults in the under-sea cables that connect the region to the rest of […]
Internet users in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda have been complaining about poor connectivity as service providers across East Africa acknowledge there has been a problem. They have said they are working to fix it. The patchy service was a result of faults in the under-sea cables that connect the region to the rest of […]
JXN Water has asked residents to conserve water on Friday morning after storms overnight Thursday caused a power outage at the system’s O.B. Curtis water treatment plant. Officials there said in a press release that residents can expect a loss in pressure until power is restored. Many Jackson-area residents woke up with no power Friday […]
A “nationwide issue” with Border Force e-gates that caused significant disruption at airports across the UK has been resolved, the British Home Office has confirmed. Airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and Manchester were impacted by the failure on Tuesday evening. Border officials were left to manually process travellers instead, with images and […]
STORY: Britain’s leading airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in the south, Manchester in northern England, and Edinburgh in Scotland, said they were aware of a nationwide problem and their staff were working with Border Force officials to help resolve the issue. One traveler who posted a video on social media platform X of long […]
A new analysis shows that more major power outages across Maine, the Northeast and the U.S. are happening as a result of bad weather. The data from the nonprofit Climate Central shows an aging power grid under pressure as climate change brings more extreme storms in all seasons. “Major outages are events that affect at least 50,000 […]
The Kansas City Scout outage stretched into Friday following a cyberattack that prompted officials to shut down the traffic information system for the metro area as a protective measure. The outage, first reported on Thursday morning, means all real-time cameras and information boards throughout the metro area are not functioning, Melissa Black, a spokeswoman for […]
A server that powers standardized testing in Tennessee was down briefly on Friday morning, temporarily halting testing for some districts. The server, owned by Pearson Assessments, was back up and running by 8:50 a.m. CT on Friday, according to Brian Blackley, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Education. The server also supports other states, […]
A major 911 outage Wednesday showed the urgent need for increased modernization and regulation of the emergency system, experts in telecommunications and public safety told NBC News. On Thursday, Lumen Technologies, a telecommunications company based in Louisiana, said in a statement that “some customers in Nevada, South Dakota, and Nebraska experienced an outage due to […]
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Some people here in the Capital City and surrounding areas managed to find their cell service disconnected. A spokesperson with AT&T told 27 News this service outage was not a national outage like many experienced in February. The service outage caused an AT&T store on Wanamaker Road to see a lot of […]
(Reuters) -Several U.S. states were experiencing a 911 emergency services outage late on Wednesday, including the entire state of South Dakota and portions of Nevada, Texas, and Nebraska, according to local officials. It was not immediately clear what was causing the outages. Requests for comment from the Department of Transportation’s Office of Emergency Medical Services, […]